Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook Last Saturday Lord Rothermere gave
a dinner to his editorial staffs and made use of the occasion to prophesy woe for Great Britain unless she adopted Protection.
He has written several articles and letters on this subject the purpose of which seems to be as much to disparage lir. Baldwin as to denounce Free Trade. In one of his letters he argues that Free Trade had nothing to do with the memorable expansion of British prosperity in the nineteenth century. He says that the expansion was due to other causes, one of which was our monopoly of the carrying trade at sea. This is one of the most amusing inversions of cause and effect which we have ever come across. Lord Beaverbrook was the principal guest at Lord Rothermere's dinner and Lord Rothermere said that all would go well if Lord Beaverbrook became Prime Minister. " He has a polidcal programme, and so have I. We are running on parallel lines."
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